[2049] in Athena Bugs
Re: (VS2) Version 6.1C: /usr/athena/ksu, /bin/su
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Thu Apr 6 13:14:13 1989
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 89 13:13:57 EDT
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: ilham@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, ilham@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Ilhamuddin Ahmed's message of Thu, 6 Apr 89 12:56:53 EDT,
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 89 12:56:53 EDT
From: Ilhamuddin Ahmed <ilham@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: ilham@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
If xterm is not root set-uid then the tty you are on (stdout) is owned
by root and not you then /bin/su returns that error. The xterm in
/mit/Stafftools/vaxbin will not be root-suid as it is NFS mounted as
nosuid.
This is still NOT an excuse for SU to report the wrong username to the
logs. It is important for system admins to be able to trust that the
correct name is reported to the log file.
John
